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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Aluminum as rocket fuel
- Message-ID: <C0BBL8.DG3@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:39:07 GMT
- References: <C0B81q.K56.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <C0B81q.K56.1@cs.cmu.edu> pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu ("Phil G. Fraering") writes:
- >\... I know titanium will burn fiercely in nitrogen (in fact,
- >/the ash from titanium burning in air is about 80% titanium nitride).
- >
- >Titanium nitride... is that Ti N
- > x y
- >or something along the lines of Ti N O ?
- > x y z
- >
- >In short, is this something that will happen without oxygen whatsoever?
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- Yes. Titanium will burn just about as vigorously in pure nitrogen as
- in air. I expect the nitride is Ti3N4, although I'm not sure of that.
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- A Ti-N-O compound would be a nitrate or nitrite, not a nitride.
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